Barkley Rosser wrote,

>    The really serious version of the Joseph story is the 
>novel by Thomas Mann, _Joseph and his Brothers_.  The usual 
>literary pooh-bahs like to say that _The Magic Mountain_ is 
>Mann's greatest novel, but it is not.  J& his B is.

Thanks, Barkley. And to think, I was on a Mann binge back in 1976 but got
bogged down on the Magic Mountain.

Regards, 

Tom Walker
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